If you want to eat the freshest locally grown vegetables, fruits, herbs, dairy, meat, honey, homemade bread, and eggs, joining a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program by buying a CSA box is a great way to do so. Some CSA boxes even include flowers and plants. Subscribing to a CSA box is a beautiful way to directly buy local, fresh, seasonal food from a farmer. Our Crème de la Crème team is here to help you find a CSA box in the Colleyville area.

How Does CSA Work?

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CSA operates by farmers offering shares of their crops to the public. A share is usually a box of vegetables but may include other farm products. These shares are typically offered through memberships or subscriptions but are sometimes available as standalone purchases. Subscriptions run the length of the farming season and entitle you to a weekly or bi-weekly box, bag, or basket of seasonal produce for a variety of fresh vegetables throughout the season.

What Are the Benefits of CSA? 

Both farmers and consumers reap the rewards of CSA. It provides vital support to farmers, helping them with the farm’s cash flow early in the season. Farmers can market their produce early in the year before spending long days in the field. It also allows them to connect with the community and get to know the folks eating the food they grow.

When you subscribe to CSA, you get access to locally grown food, which means it’s extra fresh, full of flavor, and high in nutrients. A CSA box will introduce you to new vegetables you might not usually buy, stirring up your creativity in the kitchen as you find ways to use fresh ingredients.

You and your kids will also visit the farm where your food is grown at least once per season. This will be an opportunity to get to know the farmers and learn more about how your food is grown. After making those personal connections, your kids may be more willing to try new veggies from the farm.

Comeback Creek Farm

Comeback Creek Farm has a farm box program for eight weeks per season. It offers three farm box seasons per year: early spring, summer, and a fall/winter combined season. Your box will contain organic fresh seasonal vegetables and herbs, including different varieties of produce grown using sustainable practices to yield food with the best flavor and nutrition. The produce you receive is also harvested by hand when it’s ready, just before you get it.

You can feed your family with complete peace of mind, knowing that everything you put on the table was grown on a family farm without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or harmful chemicals. As a bonus, after you pick up your farm box, the farm sends out a newsletter with details about the harvest and a link to recipes using the produce. You’ll learn about your farmer and where your food comes from. Comeback Creek Farm offers a pick-up location at a private residence in Colleyville, so eating seasonally and well couldn’t be easier.

Double Oak Food Coop

The Double Oak Food Coop offers produce boxes, grass-fed and grass-finished beef, pastured pork, pastured poultry and eggs, raw organic dairy, raw organic cheese, and farmhouse products. All foods are non-GMO, and you can choose the exact items you want in your order. You don’t have to subscribe, but you’ll save 5% if you do. It’s a convenient way to get your produce and other goods; you choose the pick-up location closest to you, a block of time for your pick-up window, or home delivery.

Off the Farm Food 

Off the Farm Food offers grass-fed and grass-finished beef, pork, lamb, pastured chicken, raw milk cheese, and farm-fresh, pastured eggs sourced directly from local farms. It also stocks a variety of organic pantry items. All the foods it offers are free of hormones, antibiotics, fillers, and GMOs. You can order monthly from the farms it partners with through its website. There aren’t any contracts or memberships to make clean food more accessible. You’re free to buy when you want and as little or as much as you want. It has many convenient local pick-up locations.

Viva City 

Viva City offers a weekly CSA box with fruits and vegetables grown without toxic chemicals and sourced from only trusted organic farms. You and your family can enjoy worry-free eating. Fruits and vegetables have a better flavor when eaten in season, and that’s what you’ll get in Viva City’s CSA boxes. Seasonal eating is also more nutritious, as the foods you eat will be of a greater variety and rotate throughout the year. Due to organic farming methods, the produce you get in your CSA box ripens naturally, retaining higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

Good Tilth Farm & Nursery

The Good Tilth Farm & Nursery is a microfarm offering a CSA box focused on seasonal greens. It partners with Lorica Tea and Botanicals to grow and forage plants that are then dried and made into tea. Its nursery and soil lab focuses on improving the soil and diversifying the plants. One of the key components the farm uses is EM-1 — a strain of lactic acid bacteria that aids the farmers in finishing off composts and manures.

Its offerings include beet microgreens, cilantro microgreens, red dandelion microgreens, spring mixes of salad greens and lettuce, and red garnet amaranth microgreens. It also offers valuable plants, such as common elderberry, comfrey, Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke), and moringa. Also available is a selection of superfood cultures created in its kitchen, including milk kefir, water kefir, and kombucha.

Our Crème de la Crème Team Recommends CSA Boxes in Colleyville

Our Crème de la Crème of Colleyville team hopes this guide has given you a better idea of the advantages for your family of participating in CSA and the benefits to local farmers. You get to serve your family the freshest, most flavorful organic foods with greater nutrition while supporting local agriculture, small independent growers, and family farms. It doesn’t get much better than that. If you know of another excellent CSA in the Colleyville area, contact us today so we can check it out and add it to the list.